Bozo – what are the triggers?

I’m being marked as a bozo, and I’m the keymaster! I changed my title (misspelled a word, turning it into chatspeak) and since that is the only thing I changed I assume it to have caused bbPress to mark me as a bozo.

Two of my users have had this happen as well, and unchecking the bozo box in the user profile does not reverse it for any of us. It always reverts back to bozo status.

Is there a way of manually resetting the user’s status in the database? And can I edit a file to change what triggers the bozo status?

Ah okay, finally found it when I searched by user id in the database, the bozo value wasn’t showing otherwise.

If I’d removed my big red nose I’d have not missed the bozo.php when I poked through the includes folder.

My knowledge of PHP is enough to not shoot myself in the foot. I don’t know enough to see what the triggers are, or what is causing the problem of not being able to take someone off bozo status from within their forum profile. Using the database to un-bozo someone is not very efficient, obviously.

I tried to change the values for Bozo in the mySQL, but that did not work either.

I fixed it finally by creating a new profile with “administrator” rights and I did checkmark the option to post more in 30 seconds, do not really know whether this is of influence, but is sounds as a logical parameter for spammers.

Guess that you can also change the key user to “Admin”, but then changing back would only be possible through mysql…

Strange. All users on my forums got the This user is a bozo: "1", that doesn’t change no matter what I do. But still, all the topics created are visible and none of the users are listed in the Bozo-list.

This is still happening. If a user is marked a bozo once, there’s some nook in the system that never allows him to post again without yelling “spam” unless you remove the meta record from bb_usermeta. Really annoying.

Also anyone know why bozo status isn’t just a checkbox in the Kakumei theme??

Also. If you disable akismet, you can’t remove “spam” attributes off messages. Which is also annoying. In fact, the spam protection is getting almost as annoying as actual spam.

In fact I think it’s akismet’s fault. If it detects what it thinks is a spam from a user once, it doesn’t forgive him. The administration process in bbpress is not interactive enough, with regard to akismet, to stop it.

We can’t tell akismet “hey, this guy’s not a spammer, ease off a bit”.